San Francisco and D.C. Set to Launch Open311 APIs

Both San Francisco and Washington D.C.are preparing to release their Open311 APIs next month.

Over the past several months, Alissa Black and Jay Nath having been working within the technology team in San Francisco to incorporate public feedback for the development of the Open311 API. The current proposal can be seen on the wiki.

Dmitry Kachaev in Washington D.C. is also preparing to relaunch the D.C. API incorporating the changes of their v2 draft while paying attention to the API spec that San Francisco has worked on in an attempt to start working out interoperability between cities.

The San Francisco team is holding their final public conference call before they launch their Open311 API. The call is open for all to join and provide feedback, comments, and ideas as they move from their development phase to the actual launch. The invitation for the call as posted on the sfgov.org website:

Open311 Apps & Services

There is a burgeoning ecosystem of apps and services which work with the Open311 GeoReport v2 standard. This includes a number of solutions with Commercial Support and a variety of Open Source options.

About Open311.org

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